# Sam Braun

> Developing software and algorithms for control and perception

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sambraun

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Algorithms @ Quilt
Jan 2024 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States

### Software Test Engineer @ Quilt
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States

### Algorithms Engineer @ Quilt
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States

### Simulation Operations Engineer at Woven by Toyota @ HireArt
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Improved on pre-existing simulation software workflows, and developed new ways to automate the simulation testing process
- Merged the work of multiple teams on multiple software stacks to improve overall automation

### Simulation Scenario Engineer at Toyota Research Institute @ HireArt
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Altos, California, United States
- Built C++ evaluation into the development pipeline to catch issues early, provided useful metrics to catch and resolve faults before the resource-intensive stages of testing
- Created and maintained simulated scenarios as the first stage of testing for new systems before they were deployed in the real world
- Worked with scientists to develop and refine evaluation metrics for new products and algorithms
- Triaged simulation-related issues in CI pipeline to identify and solve problems as they arose

### Research Assistant in Remote Sensing Lab @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
- Developed Android application in Java using Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with multiple peripherals enabling wireless data collection and control of peripheral state
- Communicated with other team members to ensure effective data handling throughout process

### Research Assistant in Field Robotics Lab @ Northeastern University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Retrofitted existing monocular and stereo machine learning-based depth estimation algorithm in Python for multi-camera application
- Investigated visual structure-from-motion in low-contrast environment on iceberg mapping and volume estimation project
- Fine-tuned iterative machine learning/image segmentation process to develop extensive underwater organism identification dataset using AWS, enabling preliminary results presentation to stakeholders
- Assembled flying drone capable of localization and object detection for use in lab projects
- Debugged program for aerial penguin identification

### Data Analysis Intern @ Berkshire
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
- Saved weeks of data processing by moving quarterly data ingest system from outdated excel-based workflow to a self-written fully-automated script in R
- Created a demo version of R workflow in Alteryx in order for managers to assess the potential of the software platform

### Research Assistant in Office of Institutional Research @ Tufts University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Somerville, Massachusetts

### Undergraduate Research Assistant in Muscle Biophysics Lab @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Amherst, MA

### Lifeguard/Swimming Instructor @ Town of Amherst, MA
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Amherst, MA


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Quantitative Economics, Physics
Tufts University

### Amherst Regional High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sam-k-braun

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Last updated: 2026-04-10